[xml-h] RSS as transferable hypertext

[Hendler, Josh]

This is actually a really interesting question of how suitable RSS is as a
hypertext replacement. I guess my initial issues would be that RSS seems all
too tailored for linking to pages that fit the news or editorial paradigm.
Perhaps this is only a concern for earlier versions of RSS (.91) and not
later versions. 

Other than that, I'm actually interested in the ability to have hypertext
links that can link to a variety of different types of media generalized
under the same concept. This is obviously becoming much more important as
formats vary, you may have the same link available in RealMedia, Quicktime,
etc, if you are linking to video. In the case of linking to news items, you
may have the content available in varying schemas, ie, newsml, html, etc.
The obvious question here is whether or not RSS is semantically capable of
encapsulating the concept of "one media element - multiple types of
references in differing formats". If not, then is this really something that
should be thought about in reference to hypertext?

-Josh Hendler
MLB.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl at simonstl.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:17 AM
To: xml-hypertext at xmlhack.com
Subject: [xml-h] RSS as transferable hypertext

I'm getting more and more interested in RSS and feeds in general as a
different style of hypertext.  Instead of links specified from X to Y,
they're effectively links to Y where X is left unspecified, a decision
for the consumer.

If there's anyone who hasn't heard of RSS, a good place to start is at:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

RSS comes in multiple flavors, like many good ideas in development.  The
rough contours of hypertext through a flow of items seems constant in
all of them, at least, though the details vary considerably.

It seems like another angle on hypertext issues generally, and it's
probably the XML-flavored hypertext tool that has the most traction at
present.


-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
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